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Whisky Galore! ()

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Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
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  • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win.
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Captain Paul Waggett
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Mrs. Waggett
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Sergeant Odd
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Peggy Macroon
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Joseph Macroon
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Catriona Macroon
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George Campbell
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Mrs. Campbell
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Dr. Maclaren
Morland Graham ...
The Biffer
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Sammy MacCodrun
James Woodburn ...
Roderick MacRurie
James Anderson ...
Old Hector
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Constable Macrae
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Angus MacCormac
Mary MacNeil ...
Mrs. MacCormac
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Captain MacPhee
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Captain MacKechnie
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Mr. Farquharson
Frank Webster ...
First Mate
Compton MacKenzie ...
Captain Buncher (as Compton Mackenzie)
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Cyril Chamberlain ...
Bit Part (uncredited)
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Narrator (uncredited)
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Colonel Linsey-Woolsey (uncredited)

Directed by

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Alexander Mackendrick

Written by

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Compton MacKenzie ... (novel) (as Compton Mackenzie)
 
Compton MacKenzie ... (screenplay) (as Compton Mackenzie) and
Angus MacPhail ... (screenplay) (as Angus Mac Phail)

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Michael Balcon ... producer
Monja Danischewsky ... associate producer (as M. Danischewsky)

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Ernest Irving ... (based on old Scottish tunes)

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Gerald Gibbs ... director of photography

Editing by

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Joseph Sterling
Charles Crichton ... (uncredited)

Editorial Department

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Roy Baker ... second assistant editor (uncredited)
Robert Winter ... assistant editor (uncredited)

Casting By

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Margaret Harper Nelson ... (uncredited) (casting)

Art Direction by

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Jim Morahan

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Barbara Barnard ... hairdresser supervisor (uncredited)
Ernest Taylor ... makeup supervisor (uncredited)

Production Management

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Hal Mason ... production supervisor
L.C. Rudkin ... unit production manager

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Harry Kratz ... assistant director
Richmond Harding ... third assistant director (uncredited)
John Meadows ... second assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Bert Davey ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Ernie Diamond ... head carpenter (uncredited)
Norman Dorme ... draughtsman (uncredited)
Roger Hopkin ... draughtsman (uncredited)
R. Thurgarland ... draughtsman (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Leonard Bulkley ... recordist (as Leonard B. Bulkley)
Stephen Dalby ... sound supervisor
Michael Stoll ... boom operator (uncredited)

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Geoffrey Dickinson ... special effects
Sydney Pearson ... special effects

Camera and Electrical Department

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Chic Waterson ... camera operator (as Chick Waterson)
Hal Britten ... camera operator: second unit (uncredited)
Jack Dooley ... still photographer (uncredited)
Harry Gillam ... director of photography: second unit (uncredited)
Roy Gough ... still photographer (uncredited)
George Pink ... Focus puller (uncredited)
Douglas Slocombe ... director of photography: second unit (uncredited)
Herbert Smith ... focus puller (uncredited)
Ken Westbury ... clapper loader (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Anthony Mendleson ... wardrobe supervisor
Fred Birch ... wardrobe master (uncredited)
Vi Murray ... wardrobe mistress (uncredited)

Music Department

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Ernest Irving ... conductor
The Philharmonia Orchestra ... music played by

Script and Continuity Department

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Marjorie Owens ... continuity

Additional Crew

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J. Arthur Rank ... presenter (as J.Arthur Rank)
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Plot Summary

The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941--during WWII--was SS Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank in bad weather outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year. Based on a true story. Written by Jörg Ausfelt

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Taglines It's Light... It's Bright... It's 100 Proof! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Tight Little Island (United States)
  • Whisky Galore (United States)
  • Tight Little Island (India, English title)
  • Whisky à gogo (France)
  • Whisky a gogó (Spain)
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  • 82 min
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Trivia American censors of the day insisted on a coda being inserted at the end of the film stating that the stolen whisky brought nothing but unhappiness to the islanders, although in real life quite the opposite was true. See more »
Goofs Had there really been whisky (or anything except air) in those wooden crates piled as high as a person on the rowboats the villagers use to loot the cargo ship, those boats would have capsized or sunk by the sheer weight of the crates. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Ealing Comedies or Kind Hearts and Overdrafts (1970). See more »
Soundtracks Brochan Lom, Tana Lom See more »
Crazy Credits Opening credits prologue: By a strange coincidence the S.S. Cabinet Minister was wrecked off the Island of Todday [in the movie] two years after the S.S. Politician, with a similar cargo, was wrecked [in real life] off the Island of Eriskay. But the coincidence stops there, for our story and the characters in it are pure fiction. See more »
Quotes Narrator: To the west, there is nothing. Except America.
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